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...characteristic of the young U. S. Minister to China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray. Last week he entered Peking amid circumstances sufficiently triumphal to have made a lesser diplomat turn smug. During the past month he has been "down South" in Shanghai, negotiating with the Nanking Nationalist Government a settlement of the claims of U. S. citizens arising out of the "Nanking Outrage" of last year (TIME, April 4), when much U. S. property was looted by Chinese and one U. S. citizen killed. That Minister MacMurray had successfully concluded these negotiations became known recently, but not until last week...
Careful inspection of the British criticisms, however, showed that they were mainly based on an early and erroneous Chinese version of the MacMurray settlement. According to this report the U. S. Minister had "apologized" to the Chinese Nanking Government because during the "Nanking Outrage" two U. S. war vessels fired upon the city. The true facts of the case were not known until last week, when the U. S. State Department released the verbatim text of the MacMurray settlement, which consists of six notes exchanged between the U. S. Minister and Nationalist Foreign Minister Hwang Fu. Therein...
Last week the strained situation thus indicated led finally to an overt and acrimonious interchange of statements by His Holiness and Il Duce. When the lightning of their irritation had cleared the air, all hopes for a settlement of the Roman Question, this year, had gone glimmering...
...Soviet Russia and spent more than $400,000 in educating them in modern agricultural methods. The new subscription which was announced by Philanthropist Rosenwald, last week, will so broaden the work of Agro-Joint that it will merge into a new corporation to be founded for Jewish land settlement in Russia...
...cheeks of the New World, when it turns from its machines to play the esthete. And, after all why need it be ashamed of its lack of artistic sophistication: No European culture was budding let alone flowering, in as short a time as has elapsed since the settlement of America. Aesthetic minds are attained only after material effort stagnates; preeminence in culture implies that the young vigor of a nation has gone to seed, and a more mature blossom has taken its place. The South, and Greenville especially, seems to be overflowing with this young vigor, and when it turns...